Artists
About Our Performers

Cynthia Miller Freivogel
Orchestra Leader, violin soloist
Cynthia Miller Freivogel is the leader and concertmaster of the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado and Combattimento (the Netherlands) where she is also co-artistic director. She has enjoyed collaborating both with visual artists and dancers, working to create new experiences around early music for audiences. She performed with Zonzo Compagnie (Belgium) in the multimedia production 3ach for young audiences and their families, developed stories around the solo violin partitas and sonatas of Bach with Broken Box Mime Theater and led the Baroque Chamber Orchestra newly choreographed works of by Garrett Ammon and Sarah Tallman of Wonderbound, blending contemporary ballet with early music. As a solo artist, she is known on YouTube as the Vivaldi “Winter” soloist with Voices of Music. She is a frequent guest leader and concertmaster for groups all over the world, including Handel and Haydn Society (Boston), Concerto Köln, Concerto d'Amsterdam, Trupe Barocca (Brazil), ARTEK chamber orchestra, Joshua Rifkin's Bach Ensemble at the Stockholm and Antwerp Early Music Festivals, as well as in the Hague with Collegium Musicum den Haag and Voices of Music. Ms. Freivogel received a BA in musicology at Yale University and an MM in violin performance at the San Francisco Conservatory. She studied principally with Camilla Wicks and Marylou Speaker Churchill, and is a dedicated and certified Suzuki teacher. https://www.cynthiafreivogel.com/

Ingrid Matthews
Ingrid Matthews is one of the premier baroque violinists of her generation. She won the Bodky International Early Music Competition in 1989, and served as Music Director of Seattle Baroque Orchestra from 1994-2013. She has performed extensively around the world as soloist, guest director and chamber musician with many of today's leading early music ensembles, and has won high critical acclaim for a discography ranging from the earliest Italian violin music through the Sonatas and Partitas of J.S. Bach. Matthews also plays jazz and swing styles, and is active as a visual artist.http://www.ingridmatthews.com/
